Since Darwin we normally think that it is women who choose which males to mate with
since males want to mate indiscriminately. Thus you would expect it would be the male
who would have to adapt to the woman and not the other way around. However, if we are
talking about males supporting women
The problem with all of this is that humans don't really fit the mold.
In other animals it is always the male who is adorned. The male lion
has the mane. The male peacock has the long tail. Even in less
glamorous birds like ducks. The male is more colorful.
In humans however, it appears
Why not deny the empirical fact - given all we have for data is a
second-hand report about a newspaper column! Indeed, the ease with
which the clever people on this list are able to generate explanations
that go either way seems to me to be a bad sign for evolutionary
psychology.
Alex
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Dr.
